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UPDATE: Indeed, logging on from home, we can’t get to individual Blogspot pages. In response to Melissa’s comment, it’s not just people in the tech community but particularly bloggers because they have a means of publication and voice in their own hands: they are media participants. It’s not a matter of making people feel safe,… Continue reading Access in India blocked to Blogspot, Typepad

In reading Matt Webb’s presentation at We Love Technology, I was struck by one of his side notes: his comment about missed television. He said, My experience of missed-TV has become a social one. Even if someone doesn’t have the programme I’m after, we have an excuse to talk. It’s engaging because it taps into… Continue reading The missed opportunity

Dancing Originally uploaded by PinkHamsters. Fuga offered a preview to architects and designers of its new club in Bangalore. Carolyn and I went along. The club is really something: so many different materials and textures at play and dramatic lighting. It felt more like something I’ve seen in Amsterdam (the Supper Club because of the… Continue reading Dancing

I was merely a passenger, not a driver. So I captured some Saturday afternoon traffic.

It’s Friday, the end of my second work week (and my ninth day) in Bangalore. When I got sick on Sunday and then the bombings in Mumbai happened, I didn’t update the way that I otherwise might have. Not a surprise… that’s what happens when you’re busy being somewhere. So let me cover a few… Continue reading Thoughts at the end of my second week

Mike posts about attempting to invite women to Sketching 06, the hardware prototyping conference he put on a few weeks ago. Though he made an attempt to invite women outside of his personal network, only one of 30 women invitees outside his network was able to attend. Rather than answering on his site, I wanted… Continue reading Bridging networks and gender gaps

In coming to India, there are two things I really wanted to do this summer but can’t: Futuresonic, which is hosting the PLAN’s Social Technologies Summit, and ISEA 2006, with its Interactive City Summit. Both are events that everybody seems to be a part of. Both have had outstanding precedents and it pains me to… Continue reading Choosing one means not choosing another

As I’ve mentioned, in India, I’m researching how people share mobile phones and the according manifestations of it in space and territory. There’s one instance of it right now in Mumbai, with the bomb blasts last night that killed 183 and injured 714. As happened with terrorist attacks in London last year, people are organizing… Continue reading Shared mobiles and the Mumbai blasts

Steve Portigal forwarded me a few sites that are doing something to help the recovery effort. He says: This site shows just one thread where people are talking about trying to reach each other and they are helping make connections whent he phone lines are down. Also, Mumbai Help shows the news unfolding, with Mumbai’s… Continue reading Mumbai bombing information and recovery sites

I was exhausted last night and went straight to bed after dinner at Jonathan’s. That’s why I missed the news of the blasts in Mumbai (Bombay): serial blasts across the city during rush hour. 164 people were killed. It seems to be the work of two Islamic militant groups, one Pakistani, the other a student… Continue reading Safe in Bangalore